Legal Opinion
United States v. Ricardo Ferrera
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 11, 1984No. 82-1255PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Circuit Judge.
The government charged defendant Ferrera with two counts of transporting in interstate commerce several thousand dollars worth of checks that he had obtained through fraud. See 18 U.S.C. § 2314. Essentially, it sought to prove that Ferrera deliberately gave to Larry Hector, a Canadian grain grower and broker, the impression that Ferrera was well connected with Conasupo, the Mexican government’s grain buying department, and that Conasupo had placed a firm order through Ferrera for the purchase of about $1.5 million worth of Canadian grain from Hector’s company. These…
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